On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Mathias Hasselmann < mathias.hasselm...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 12.11.2012, 15:17 -0800 schrieb Sriram Ramkrishna: > > Greetings! > > > > I know that we have a bunch of new people who joined the list. We > > haven't done any thing to use you people. Sadly, an epic failure on > > our part. > > > > But I am looking for some good people who can fill the role of > > community manager. Clearly, we have a problem relating to our user > > base and some of the decisions have become more controversial than it > > needs to be. > > As you point out, community managers basically work on improving > communication in projects with separated circles of participants, > like silently working in-house developers, and a wider community > of outsiders. Do we really have such situation in GNOME? > > We mostly have a problem externally. But I think we have a situation internally. Resolving the situation will help the community to scale up. > What would be the inner circle then? > The inner circle would likely be module maintainers. They are the core team, followed by the release team, designers, translators and everyone. I would like community enthusiastic to be on equal level with this second circle. How did it happen? > I think it's a natural organization. There is nothing wrong with this model. We're just trying to get the communication right. > > Do we really want to consolidate such unfortunate situation, or should > that inner circle rather be broken again? > > There is no issue with core team or anything else. In fact, thanks to World of GNOME, I know more of what's going on with design and modules than I ever have. Our contacts with the general populace needs work. Do people feel there is a looming issue with how team members communicate internally? I never felt that. sri > Ciao, > Mathias > > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >
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